Torvalds Switches Versioning System to his Git Project

After having resolved to no longer use controversial and closed source versioning tool BitKeeper Linus Torvalds has announced that he will begin using his own - Git. "Torvalds stopped using a management system called BitKeeper earlier this month, reverting to an older, slower technique of simply e-mailing updates among the hundreds of programmers who contribute to the project. But moving to Git means the Linux project once again will have an automated mechanism to control the flow of updates and track changes."

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